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According to a judicial document dated January 18 and unveiled Monday, the 33-year-old Juventus striker and former Real Madrid player refused special security measures that would have allowed him to avoid pbading in front of the journalists and curious spectators. The court session will be start at 9:50 am (0850 GMT) and a spokesman said that Ronaldo could be sentenced the same day or in the next few days.
Ronaldo should be given a heavy fine after the Spanish tax authorities and the player's advisers makes an agreement to settle the claims he hid the revenues generated by the image rights when he was playing for Real Madrid. The five-time global player of the year spent nine years laden with trophies in Madrid.
The president of the North Madrid court, Juan Pablo Gonzalez-Herrero, said in the court document that he had refused to Ronaldo the special measures because despite his "great renown", he will not "compromise security" when he climbs the stairs to the courthouse. It means that Ronaldo not being able to drive in a parking lot of the yard far from the cameras, as he had asked. His request for appear by video conference was also denied.
The agreement between Ronaldo's lawyers and the Spanish tax authorities means that the player will be fined 18.8 million euros ($ 21.4 million) and sentenced to 23 months in prison that he will not have to serve.
Penalties of up to two years are not usually applied in Spain for alleged perpetrators of crimes without violence. The judge at the hearing pbad the last sentence.
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